Description
A spherically symmetric dust radiative transfer code is used to model the circumstellar dust shell around IRC +10 216. Compared to numerous previous models a much larger body of observational data is used as constraints; the spectral energy distribution between 0.5 and 60000{mu}m, 2-4{mu}m and 8-23{mu}m spectra, optical, far-infrared and centimeter sizes and interferometric visibility curves between 1.6 and 11.2{mu}m are used to constrain the model. The most important result is that in order to fit the visibility curve at 2.2{mu}m and the size of the shell in the optical, scattering has to be invoked.
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